“Many of us are fortunate to be blessed with the ability to succeed - not for our sole benefit, but so we may apply the result of our success to assist others.” MayStrongAbilityResultsSucceedBenefitsBlessedFortunateSoleStay StrongBeing BlessedJust Stay StrongAbility To Succeed Author:Frank McKinney
“There is no accident so unfortunate but wise men will make some advantage of it, nor any so entirely fortunate but fools may turn it to their own prejudice.” MenMayTurnsWiseFoolAdvantagePrejudiceAccidentsFortunateUnfortunate Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“In the downhill of life, when I find I'm declining, May my lot no less fortunate be Than a snug elbow-chair can afford for reclining, And a cot that o'erlooks the wide sea; With an ambling pad-pony to pace o'er the lawn, While I carol away idle sorrow, And blithe as the lark that each day hails the dawn, Look forward with hope for to-morrow.” LooksMaySeaTomorrowSorrowWideFortunateDawnEach DayChairsPaceIdleLawnsElbowsMorrowHailPadsCarolsPoniesLarksLess FortunateBlithe Author:John Churton Collins
“Through certain humors or passions, and from temper merely, a man may be completely miserable, let his outward circumstances be ever so fortunate.” MenMayCertainPassionCircumstancesMiserableFortunateTemper Author:Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury
“Years hence, perhaps, may dawn an age, More fortunate, alas! than we, Which without hardness will be sage, And gay without frivolity.” YearsMayAgeGayFortunateDawnSageAlasHardnessFrivolity Book:A selection of his poems Source: A selection of his poems
“Things may not be immediately discernible in what a man writes, and in this sometimes he is fortunate; but eventually they are quite clear and by these and the degree of alchemy that he possesses he will endure or be forgotten.” MenWritingMaySometimesClearDegreesEndureForgottenFortunateAlchemy Book:Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun [and] Hermann Hesse Source: Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun [and] Hermann Hesse
“If I have accomplished anything, I owe it, among other fortunate circumstances, to the fact that through the early training bestowed on me by my father, I started, I may fairly say, with an advantage of a quarter of a century over my contemporaries.” IfsMayFactsFatherCenturyCircumstancesTrainingAdvantageFortunateAccomplishedQuartersQuarter Of A Century Book:Autobiography Source: Autobiography